ALEX HAMILTON b. 1958, Australia
Installation view at Patrick Heide Contemporary Art
NEW YORK DRAWINGS
Chase Fountain Manhattan 1 Pen & ink, Pitt pen, gouache, charcoal pencil & airbrush on photocopy on Canson watercolour paper 62.7 x 88.1 cm 2017 â‚Ź 4.000,00 incl. VAT (unframed)
Chase Fountain Manhattan 1 - detail
Chase Fountain Manhattan 2 Pen & ink, Pitt pen, gouache, charcoal pencil & photocopy on Canson watercolour paper 2017 89.4 x 123.2 cm â‚Ź 6.000,00 incl. VAT (unframed)
Chase Fountain Manhattan 2 - detail
The High Line (Manhattan) Pen, ink, charcoal pencil, airbrush, Pitt pen, gouache, photocopy & paper cut-outs glued on Canson watercolour paper 83.7 x 118.7 cm 2016 â‚Ź 6.000,00 incl. VAT (unframed)
The High Line (Manhattan) - detail
Koch Fountain Met Manhattan 1 Pen, ink, Pitt pen, gouache, charcoal pencil, airbrush & photocopy on Canson watercolour paper 62.7 x 88.1 cm 2017 â‚Ź 4.000,00 incl. VAT (unframed)
Koch Fountain Manhattan 2 Pen, ink pit pen, gouache, charcoal pencil, airbrush & photocopy on watercolour paper 89 x 122.5 cm 2017 â‚Ź 6.000,00 incl. VAT (unframed)
Fox News Studios 2 Pen, ink, Pitt pen, gouache, charcoal pencil, airbrush & photocopy on Canson watercolour paper 80.9 x 117 cm 2017 â‚Ź 6.000,00 incl. VAT (unframed)
Fox News Studios 2 - detail
Times Square display screens 3 Pen & ink, charcoal pencil, airbrush, pit pen, gouache & photocopy on Canson 165gsm watercolour paper 87.8 x 109 cm 2016 â‚Ź 6.000,00 incl. VAT (unframed)
Sparks AV Pen, ink, charcoal pencil, gouache, pastel, Pitt pen & airbrush on photocopy on Canson watercolour paper 86.6 x 130 cm 2017 â‚Ź 6.000,00 incl. VAT (unframed)
LONDON DRAWINGS
Arch 6 Pen and ink, charcoal pencil, gouache, pastel pitt pen & airbrush on photocopy on archival paper 80.5 x 115.9 cm 2013 â‚Ź 6.000,00 incl. VAT (unframed)
Piccadilly Park Manchester Pen and ink, charcoal pencil, pastel, airbrush, pitt pen & Gouache on photocopy on archival paper 40.7 x 58.8 cm 2015 â‚Ź 3.000,00 incl. VAT & frame
Turner Building Car Park 7 Pencil & airbrush on photocopy 83 x 96 cm 2005 â‚Ź 5.000,00 incl. VAT (unframed)
As the streets of cities around the world start to look deserted, Alex Hamilton’s artistic vision is coming back to haunt us. As if the artist knew of the distortion our reality would face and the invisible force of destruction getting hold of our cities. Lines in white and colour are meandering and spreading like weird waves through the air, sneakily taking over familiar squares and plazas. The flowing lines lead our eye into an ambivalent architectural landscape that constantly shifts between recognisable structure and dissolution. Urban space is reinvented and reinterpreted through Hamilton’s trademark technique of photocopying photographs onto watercolour paper to then erase parts of the image while developing the composition with a variety of drawing techniques. The artist asks us to re-orientate ourselves amidst the ordered chaos of the familiar and the imagined. His dense and layered drawings open our tired eyes to our alienated reality with the promise of ultimate renewal. In Alex Hamilton’s mind, and in his ever-expanding drawing universe, fragmented realities and seemingly contradictory associations somehow make sense. The disruption, chaos and ongoing renewal threaten and accuse us, yet deep down they also fascinate us, as we get a condensed glimpse of our far too complex world.
AUSTRALIA DRAWINGS
Installation view at Patrick Heide Contemporary Art
Masters 6 Pen and ink, charcoal pencil, gouache, pastel pitt pen & airbrush on photocopy on archival paper 82.3 x 119.7 cm 2014 â‚Ź 6.000,00 incl. VAT (unframed)
Masters 8 Chain Store Pen, ink, Pitt pen, gouache, charcoal pencil & airbrush on photocopy on Canson watercolour paper 83.5 x 119.8 cm 2017 â‚Ź 6.000,00 incl. VAT (unframed)
Masters 8 Chain Store - detail
Monument to a poet, the town of Nhil Pen and ink, charcoal pencil, pastel, airbrush, pitt pen & Gouache on photocopy on archival paper 41.5 x 58.8 cm 2015 â‚Ź 3.000,00 incl. VAT & frame
Shopping Street Fitzroy Pen and ink, charcoal pencil, pastel, airbrush, pitt pen & Gouache on photocopy on archival paper 41.4 x 56.8 cm 2015 â‚Ź 3.000,00 incl. VAT & frame
Geelong Ford Motor Works North Façade Pen and ink, charcoal pencil, watercolour, gouache, pastel, pit pen, airbrush on photocopy on 165gsm Canson watercolour paper 90.5 x 141.7 cm 2018 ₏ 7.800,00 incl. VAT (unframed)
Plant Façade North Pen and ink, charcoal pencil, watercolour, gouache, pastel, pit pen, airbrush on photocopy on 165gsm Canson watercolour paper 91.2 x 152.1 cm 2016 ₏ 7.800,00 incl. VAT (unframed)
Plant Faรงade North - detail
Carbon Monoxide Scape at Federation Square 2 Pen, ink, pit pen, gouache charcoal pencil & airbrushon photocopy watercolour paper 69.8 x 95 cm 2019 â‚Ź 6.000,00 incl. VAT (unframed)
ALEX HAMILTON Born in 1958, Adelaide, Australia Lives between Melbourne, Australia and London, UK Education 1982 1985 1989 1993-94
Diploma of Canberra School of Art, Canberra, Australlia Offered studio by J Walker at Gertrude Contemporary Diploma of Adult Education, Hawthorn Campus, University of Melbourne, Australia Tutor and Technician Printmaking Department, Glasgow School of Art, Scotland
Selected Solo Exhibitions 2020 2019 2017
2016 2015 2013 2012 2009 2008 2007 2005 2003 2001 1996 1995
Waterfront Gallery, Deakin University, Geelong (upcoming) Melting and Migration Blank. How to make a Trumpet out of Ice, Testing Grounds, Melbourne Fremantle Dust: Questions of Usefulness for Art and Architecture, Edith Cowan University, Melbourne The Weird Wiles of Reprehensible’s Pensibles, solo drawing show at Pablo’s Birthday, New York Vacant, reading material, memory, Drawing show and round table discussion, part of London Festival of Architecture, London Drawing show Pablos Birthday Gallery, New York Vacant Geelong, in partnership with Ford Australia, Deakin University and Geelong City Council Volta New York solo project, New York and I would see flowers through your eyes, Drawing show and book launch Patrick Heide Contemporary Art, London Under a White Sky, Drawing show with book launch performance, Patrick Heide Contemporary Art, London Arches and Seizures, Ice Trumpet performance and book launch, Kaleid editions project space, London Empty and Invisible, Ice Trumpet Performance and drawing show, Patrick Heide Contemporary Art, London In Space We Trust, T1+2 artspace, London If your head was closed off on all sides, Patrick Heide Contemporary Art, London Please do not forget your surface T1+2 Artspace, London Alex Hamilton - Recent Work Succession Gallery, London New Works (created during residency), Kunstverein Salzburg The straight line Ice Trumpet performance Alpha Jetzt Galerie, Stuttgart Sixteen different landscapeds British Council, Prague
Selected Group Exhibitions & Performances 2017 2016 2015 2015 2014 2014
Iconic Industry, exhibition and symposium, National Wool Museum, Geelong, VIC. A Stranger Comes to Town, Ten Korean and International Artists, Seoul Gallery, Seoul Vacant Geelong symposium panel member& exhibition, Geelong Wool Museum, Australia Miniature Immensities G3Artspace Kingston Arts Centre, Melbourne Take Home a Nude in support of the New York Academy, Sotheby’s, New York Interviews from Yale University Radio WYBCX “Lives of the Most Excellent Artists, Curators, Architects, Critics and more: The Art World Demystified”, Connecticut HEARSE Alex Hamilton/David Palliser Ice Trumpet performance at Conduit Gallery, Melbourne Material, Texture, Surface: Thoughts on Drawing. Inflection Journal, Launch Show at Delux Gallery, Melbourne Drawing Now Paris, Patrick Heide Contemporary Art, London and Paris Down to Zero: with Prunella Clough, David Connearn, Simón Granell, Andrea Gregson, Bridget Riley, Dieter Roth and Piers Wardle, Patrick Heide Contemporary Art, London Recording Britain Now, The John Ruskin Drawing Prize Shortlist Exhibition, Millennium Gallery, Sheffield, UK
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Drawing Now Paris. Salon Of Contemporary Design, Paris Paper Vernacular: Drawings And Constructions, House of the Nobleman Cutlog, New York Salon du Dessin Contemporain, Paris Volta 7 Basel Patrick Heide Contemporary Art Drawing Now Paris Patrick Heide Contemporary Art, Carrousel du Louvre Lieder aus dem Morast/ Songs of the Swamp Kunsthalle Exnergasse Vienna Austria Eraserhead Fruehsorge Gallery Berlin Jonathan Callan, Juergen von Dueckerhoff, Alex Hamilton, Bertram Hasenauer, Christian Holstad, Hansjoerg Schneider, Mark Sheinkman, John Sparagana Moving Still curated by Jonathan McLeod Guillochon Gallery London Constellations a large number of small drawings curated by Vanessa Gerrans, part of International Drawing Out conference RMIT University Gallery Melbourne Australia Please Don’t Let me be Misunderstood Save 10 Murray Street Hobart Australia Sound Sculpture Performance, under the auspices of Masato Takasaka, Sutton Gallery Melbourne Australia Spikes Performance at 175 Gallery, London, Pecha Kucha evening. If you melted I would melt myself into you. Alex Hamilton, Jürgen von Dückerhoff & Christian Holstad, Patrick Heide Contemporary Art, London Speaker & Pannel Member on ‘Un:Place A multidisciplinary event exploring the city as artistic resource’ at Jerwood Space, London Open Folds, Hockney Gallery, Royal College of Art, London All Capital letters Deutsche Bank, London Dead City, St Pancras Crypt, London /seconds, Magazine Issue 9, online publishing project, edited by Peter Lewis The Free Art Fair, London Aqua Miami, Patrick Heide Contemporary Art Ice Trumpet performance, Tribute to Malcolm Lowry Performance, at An Evening of Loss by The Last Tuesday Society. London Free Art Fair (with Chantal Joffe, Terry Smith, Bob & Roebrta Smith), London Avatar of sacred discontent, London Obsession durch Technik, artMbassy, Berlin Salon 2007-New British Painting & Works on Paper, Workplace Gallery, London Fire, Performance and exhibition at Sartorial Gallery, London The end of civilisation, Port Elliot Literary Festival (incl. J & D Chapman, Paul Fryer and Rut Blees Luxemberg), Port Elliot, UK concrete, sausage and other team ghosts, after the butcher Gallery, Berlin Table Top, Josee Bienvenue Gallery, New York Water, Sartorial Gallery, London New Gothic (curated by Martin Sexton), Tate Britain, London Art News (incl. Martin Creed & Gillian Wearing), Raid Projects, Los Angeles Guardian Angel St Olave Church, London (curated by Martin Sexton) From our cold hands VTO Gallery London (curated by Thomas Kilpper) Artist’s Association of Autonomous Book Art and Magazines, Book Fair, Berlin Art News (incl. Martin Creed & Gillian Wearing) Three Colts Gallery, London The Patterns on the Plans and the Lack of Plan Plan T1+2 Artspace, London Publish and be damned Artist’s Publication Show, The Crypt, London Mothers Oxford House, London, (curated by Harry Pye) Swiss light on the Tate Swiss Embassy, London (Performance) Stoke Newington Festival (Performance), UK Pagemakers London Artist’s Book Fair, London La llama International Artist’s Workshop, Venezuela Pagemakers Gracefield Arts Centre (Touring exhibition), UK Braziers International Artist’s Workshop, Braziers, UK Super Nature Studio A, London Lady’s Smoking Room Installtion, Grand Midway Hotel, St. Pancras, London Worth St. Pancras Station, London A Matter of Making CSA Alumni, Canberra Fragile Objects Embassy of Australia, Washington DC De la ville du Locle Winterthur, Switzerland & National Library of Australia, Canberra
1991 1989 1987
Washington Art Book Fair, Corcoran Gallery, DC Ten Years of Graphic Investigation Canberra School of Art, Canberra Books and Boats State Library of Victoria, Melbourne The City and Beyond La Trobe University Gallery, Melbourne (Touring Exhibition) Four Bodies Stuart Gertsmann Gallery, Melbourne Scitture: Pagine e Immagini National Library, Milan
Collections Saatchi Collection, London, UK Baltimore Museum of Modern Art, USA Denver Museum of Modern Art, USA Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK Tate Library, London, UK National Gallery of Australia, Australia The Australian Print Workshop, Melbourne Gino Gigi Archives, Milan, Italy Art Gallery of South Australia Judith Hoffberg Archives, California, USA Paragon Press, Charles Booth-Clibbon, London, UK Private Collections in Australia, Scotland, Germany, Austria, Czech Republic, UK, US